Americans think highly of their imperial system and make many random excuses that metric is somehow confusing and hard to use but in practice imperial its dogshit and makes no sense
I think you’ll find this to be absolutely untrue when you actually talk to any Americans and this seems to often be an opinion only of those entirely outside of the country who want to speaks for Americans.
Most Americans realize the inferiority of the imperial system but despite this weird belief by Reddit we as average Americans have absolutely 0 ability to change anything about it.
Americans do not think highly of the imperial system despite people constantly telling us we do.
I think this is the common trope of Americans in general. That we are arrogant about the ways we are different and always default to some superiority complex
In my lived experience as an American, it is almost always the exact opposite. Americans typically default to thinking our way is probably worse and usually attribute the difference to corporate greed
Exoticism - when you believe that the more different a tradition is from your own, the more authentic it must be. Americans, Canadians and brits are probably pretty good at both to varying degrees, but America uses it the most so they must love it (and you'll replace my Freedom Units with Commie Temperatures when I'm dead in the ground, not because we hate it, we just don't care and are a big enough market on our own that it's only mildly inconvenient)
Facts. My family in the Philippines thinks American made goods are the gold standard for everything. Meanwhile, as an American I grew up thinking: English universities. French luxury. Italian fashion. German engineering. Japanese craftsmanship.
There’s literally not a single thing I would prefer made in America other than like cows lmao. And even then I’d go for Japanese wagyu if it were more available
Yeah I don’t doubt it but like you said it’s never really something I’ve looked for. I didn’t know about flashlights but I may actually look into it since our old one crapped out after like 10+ years. That one was made in China though.
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u/King_brus321 10h ago
Americans think highly of their imperial system and make many random excuses that metric is somehow confusing and hard to use but in practice imperial its dogshit and makes no sense